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Ms Leanmore Hamandishe

ID No: 830-***-**** ***, Language: English, Zulu, Setswana & Xhosa

Address: No 24 Silverpine, Heuwelsig Estate, Celtis Ridge, Centurion, Pretoria, 0157 Contact No: 071-****-*** Email: ade5tw@r.postjobfree.com Profile

A professionally registered social worker who also majored in Psychology and Sociology with nearly eleven years’ experience working with children, youths and adults. I have diverse social, technical skills and extensive experience working with communities in advancing the rights of vulnerable communities’ members such as persons living with disabilities and orphans and vulnerable children and HIV/AIDS affected communities. I demonstrate competence with knowledge of social work, statutory work, Criminal Procedure Act, Children’s Act, Child Justice Act, Counselling, Play therapy, HIV and AIDS counselling, Project management, Supervision and Research. Being the Tshwane metropolitan point of contact collecting relevant information on retirement benefits, medical aid movements and provides day-to-day support to employees. My core values include integrity, honesty and reliability. I am a self-starter who thrives under challenges and I am a highly articulate, confident, assertive, mature and a hardworking persuasive team builder. I possess excellent assessment and intervention skills, and possess world class management and administrative skills and I am a passionate and ambitious professional who is dedicated to maintaining high quality standards at work especially through multi-agency cooperation. I have had the opportunity to gain extensive experience in mentoring and supervising both qualified and student Social Workers/Social Auxiliary Workers respectively. I also have extensive skills including good interpersonal skills, tactful and courteous in dealing with people in very sensitive situations. Computer literate with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word and I am able to work with the utmost accuracy and have the ability to deal and maintain confidential information as part of my professionalism. Professional Experience

Duration -01 August 2013- Current

NICRO (National Institute for Crime Prevention and Reintegration of Offenders) Pretoria

(State Funded Non-Government Organisation)

Team (Child Protection and Probation Team)

Position – Senior Social Worker/Acting Supervisor/Supervisor Key performance areas

Ensure that a Social Work service with regard to the care, support, protection and development of vulnerable individuals, group, families and communities through the relevant programs is rendered.

Attend to any other matters that could result in, or stem from, social instability in any form.

Supervise and advise Social Workers, Social Auxiliary Workers and volunteers to ensure an effective Social Work Services.

Keep up to date with new developments in the social work field.

Supervise all the administrative functions required in the unit and undertake the higher-level administrative functions.

Shortlisting, selecting, interviewing candidates and enrollment of new staff members in the Tshwane district office.

Working with the Magistrate Courts managing NCS (Non-custodial Sentencing) and Diversion programs and intake of both children and adult clients diverted or sentenced from the Criminal Justice System.

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Conducting risk and needs assessments to offenders and high-risk individuals to determine the suitability of inclusion in any NICRO therapeutic and educational programs.

Implement and facilitate therapeutic, psycho-social, and cognitive-behavioral programs to offenders and non-offenders (high risk behaviors). Programs such as Anger Management, Adult and Youth Life skills, Substance abuse programs, Road Offences program, Domestic Violence related programs including victims of crimes, Family Group Conferences, Victim-Offender Mediation. All these programs are rendered either within a group setting or individually/casework for both young and adult offenders and overseeing, fully responsible for Road Offences Panel Program (ROPP) clients and group i.e. intake, facilitation and payment reconciliation

Liase with other service providers, stakeholders and professionals in order to refer clients to relevant institutions for rehabilitation treatment when necessary

Rendering after-care services to clients to ensure that they have been successfully rehabilitated.

Family Mediation and facilitation of care and contact between parents and their children

Report writing as feedback mainly to court and other stakeholders and testifying in court

Presentation of expert witness report during court proceeding.

Providing social work services to local schools using a holistic approach (Engaging in all aspects contributing to the emotional wellness and academic progress of the learners) and Advocating and lobbying of NICRO services within the community and schools.

Compiling a data base of service providers that can be utilized and building up a network to serve as a support structure for the schools and the larger community.

Providing training and presentations on NICRO services to various stakeholders.

Attending and participating in multi-disciplinary case-flow management meetings with the Local Steering Committee comprising of magistrates, prosecutors, Department of Social Development, Department of Education, Legal Aid, SAPS and other role players .

Supervision and mentoring of qualified and student Social workers and Social Auxiliary workers

Administration, record keeping and managing report requirements for all work done. Duration - March 2013- July 2013

RIET Family Guidance Centre

(State Funded Non-Government Organization)

Team (Women and Child Protection)

Position - Social Worker

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

Render counseling services to abused women and children as well as victims of crime

Assessment, development and implementation of intervention plan and evaluation of impact of services on the children and women who are abused.

Organizing own workload according to office objectives.

Administrative accountability through effective record keeping.

Development and implementation of prevention, development and educational programs as well as group work for the victims of domestic abuse

Mentoring and supervising of staff in internship program, social auxiliary workers, social work students and VEP volunteers at different police stations.

Implement strategies to improve the basket of community services within urban, peri-urban, rural, and informal contexts

Implement strategies to improve facility-community referral and linkage systems. 3

Duration - January 2010- August 2012

Restorative Justice Centre (RJC) is a champion of restorative justice practices in South Africa Team (Child Protection and Probation Team)

Position - Probation Officer/Social Worker

Key Performance Areas

Assessment, program development and implementation of intervention plan and evaluation of impact of services for children and adults.

Research, assess client’s socio-eco-psychological environment and design psycho- social programs intending to restore dignity and healing for young offenders, according to the Child Justice Act of 2009.

Implement and manage life skills development programs, wellness programs and support programs for both young and adult offenders, diverted from the Criminal Justice System.

Compiling pre-trial reports for juvenile and pre-sentence/pre-trial reports for adults offenders

Running victim empowerment programs and Compiling victim impact reports

Stakeholder communications and reporting, managing all social services work ordered by the Magistrate Courts, as required by both the Criminal Procedure Act and Child Justice Act.

Manage and report on daily and monthly statistical information of young offenders coming through the Criminal Justice System, as stipulated by legislation.

Track, trace and feedback all referred work submitted to other stakeholders.

Attend and participate in multi-disciplinary case-flow management meetings.

Administration, record keeping and managing report requirements of the Magistrate Courts, Probation section.

Monitor and evaluate behavioral progress of clients, reporting on progress development and case development for services rendered in my office.

Co-leading programs with the supervisor and stepping in for her when she was on leave. Duration - January 2009-June 2009

River of Life Community Centre (RivLife)

(State Funded Non-Government Organization)

Team (Child Protection Team)

Position - Student Social Worker

Key Performance Areas

Care and support to orphaned and vulnerable children through a Drop-in-Centre and women with material support- food parcels, clothes, counseling services and awareness campaigns on abuse

Referrals to Police and places of care and safety as well as to other service providers

HIV and AIDS support program, home based care and working with a support group. Nutrition program by food distribution to the poor and terminally ill clients, setting up door gardens in the community and a community garden at the Centre

Investigating and presenting cases at court until finalization of the Children’s Court Enquiry.

Identifying children who are in need of care and protection and assist appropriately.

Render temporary foster/adoption care placements and supervision services.

Rendering trauma counseling to children and families found to be in need of care and protection.

Monitoring the placements until files that are transferred to the Foster Care Department or Department of Social Development.

Render prevention and statutory services in respect of individuals, families and groups.

Render family re-unification services.

Networking and liaising with different stakeholders such as Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Play Therapists, Doctors, Health workers, Educators- to ensure that the best interests of children in need of care and protection are met 4

Professional Qualifications

Bachelor of Social Science (Social Work), University of Fort Hare, South Africa, 2009 Courses covered : Social Work, Psychology, Sociology and Criminology Professional and Academic Highlights

Awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by University of Pretoria (4th year students development)

Mentor for Social Work and Social Auxiliary workers and students

Spokesperson for Restorative Justice Centre on Tshwane FM radio April 2012

Received tuition waivers at University of Fort Hare based on academic performance.

Selected to be the Child Member of Parliament, Mashonaland West Province (Zimbabwe) in 1999.

High School prefect (1998 – 2002)

Trainings attended

Risk Assessment

Children’s Act 38 of 2005, Child Justice Act 75 of 2008, Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998

Gender Based Violence (GBV), Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977

Substance Abuse

Youth Diversion Programs

Anger Management and The Perpetrators Program

HIV and AIDS Pre and Post Counseling, Prevention and Awareness

Mediation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Supervision, Social work Ethics and Professional Conduct

In service Training on Child trafficking

Family Therapy and Mediation

Certificates Acquired

Restorative Justice: Reflections Past Present and Future

Stress Management

Perspectives on Adolescence in South African Children

Children in Conflict with the Law

Non-custodial Sentencing Impact Evaluation Research Results

Criminal Behavior Foundations: understanding Criminal thinking

Domestic violence

Certificate of appreciation (University of Pretoria, Department of Social Work and Criminology) Computer literacy and Skills

MS Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet Explorer, Project

International Computer Driving License (ICDL) (Computer literacy in application tools, computer utilities, power point presentation and documentation skills.) References

Faith Tshabang Mike Batley (CEO) Tendai Mudukuti (Supervisor) NICRO (Area Manager) Restorative Justice Centre RivLife Community Centre Germiston Pretoria Pietermaritzburg

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